438064 - Create a new window if only the download manager is open and the user clicks on the doc icon

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Alex Faaborg [:faaborg] (Firefox UX)]

If only the download manager is open and the user clicks on the doc icon, they probably want to have a new Firefox window, since this is the behavior when the download manager window is not open.

Comment 1

[Robert]

This is how it is in Safari.

Comment 2

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

Taking me forever to get traction here.  The code that handles the dock click (that is relevant to our situation) is in nsNativeAppSupportCocoa::ReOpen

Comment 3

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

For what it is worth, this looks like a polish-hard bug.  There isn't an "easy" fix here.

Comment 4

[Paul O'Shannessy [:zpao] (not bugmail, email directly)]

do we not have a way to see if a window is a normal window vs a download manager (really any non-browser) window?

Comment 5

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

The browser has a special name (name attribute) AFAIK.  You should be able use nsIWindowMediator to see if any browser window is open.

Comment 6

[Alex Faaborg [:faaborg] (Firefox UX)]

This bug's priority relative to the set of other polish bugs is:
P2 - Polish issue that is in a secondary interface, occasionally encountered, and is easily identifiable.

This is kind hard to classify as primary / secondary UI since it relates to the main window, but only triggers when there isn't a main window.  Either way, the issue is moderately encountered, and really obvious when it is a problem ("hey, where's my window Firefox?")